Successor
- n. One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; — correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.